$50 million sought in Dodger Stadium beating, records show

Bryan Stow, who suffered brain damage in an attack at the Dodgers' home opener in March 2011, is taken on a gurney from Los Angeles County USC Medical Center to be flown to San Francisco in this file photo from May 16, 2011.AL SEIB, AP

LOS ANGELES – Attorneys for Bryan Stow want more than $50 million for their brain-damaged client to cover future medical costs and pain and suffering stemming from the March 31, 2011, attack outside Dodger Stadium, court papers show.

Stow has racked up $4.3 million in medical bills so far and will need more than $50 million.

"These injuries include, but are not limited to, massive traumatic brain injury that has left him severely and permanently disabled," according to the Stow attorneys' court papers.

The damage estimates were in documents filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court as part of a statement aimed at helping Judge Abraham Khan supervise the complaint through trial.

The Santa Cruz man and his children, Tyler and Tabitha Stow, sued Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and 13 team entities on May 24. Among the claims are assault, battery, negligence, premises liability, negligent hiring, assault and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan, was beaten in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium shortly after the team's opening-day victory over the Giants last year.

The trial of the lawsuit is expected to last about a week, according to Stow's attorneys.

A trial-setting conference is scheduled June 29 before Khan.

On June 8, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood were ordered to stand trial for the beating of Stow. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George Lomeli found sufficient evidence to require Sanchez, 30, and Norwood, 31, both of Rialto, to proceed to trial on one felony count each of mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury.

The judge also found enough evidence involving an allegation that Sanchez had personally inflicted great bodily injury against Stow, then 42, but ruled there was insufficient evidence that Norwood had.

Sanchez also was bound over for trial on a misdemeanor count of battery involving a run-in with a female Giants fan – who was sprayed by soda – and a misdemeanor battery count on an allegation of swinging his fist at a young man in another group of Giants fans in the parking lot after the Dodgers-Giants game.

Both men remain jailed and are due back at the downtown Los Angeles courthouse for arraignment Friday.

Bryan Stow, who suffered brain damage in an attack at the Dodgers' home opener in March 2011, is taken on a gurney from Los Angeles County USC Medical Center to be flown to San Francisco in this file photo from May 16, 2011. AL SEIB, AP
This undated image provided April 5, 2011, by John Stow shows Bryan Stow holding his 12-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. Bryan Stow, a Giants fan, was beaten after the Dodgers' home opener in 2011. ANONYMOUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Erin Collins, center, sister, Bonnie Stow, left, sister, and Ann Stow, right, mother of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, express thanks during a news conference at a hospital in San Francisco on May 23, 2011. Bryan Stow, 42, was severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on March 31, 2011. PAUL SAKUMA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco Giants fan Esther Barrera holds up a sign after Bryan Stow arrived at a hospital in San Francisco on May 16, 2011. PAUL SAKUMA, AP
One of 300 billboards showing a "wanted" poster for two men sought in the beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow is seen during Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck's news conference on May 17, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. It was announced during the news conference that the Los Angeles Dodgers have raised the reward by an additional $100,000 for a total of $200,000. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN, GETTY IMAGES
Defendant Louie Sanchez, left, looks away during testimony by Corey Maciel during a preliminary hearing June 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court. Sanchez is one of two men suspected of beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on opening day 2011. BRIAN VAN DER BRUG, AP
Defendant Marvin Norwood, left, and his attorney Victor Escobedo look toward the witness stand as Corey Maciel, a friend of victim Bryan Stow, testifies during a preliminary hearing June 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court. Norwood is one of two men suspected of beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on opening day 2011. BRIAN VAN DER BRUG, AP
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Jamey Carroll speaks to the fans at AT&T Park in San Francisco before their game April 11, 2011, about the beating of paramedic Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium. ERIC RISBERG, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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